Bug 173968 - iSCSI driver should not try reconnecting to a temporary redirect address
Summary: iSCSI driver should not try reconnecting to a temporary redirect address
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: iscsi-initiator-utils
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike Christie
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-23 07:13 UTC by Arpakorn Boonkongchuen
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-08-02 17:58:37 UTC
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Description Arpakorn Boonkongchuen 2005-11-23 07:13:47 UTC
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Description of problem:
iSCSI driver should not try reconnecting to a temporary redirect address it has 
gotten from the configured portal address (in a login response PDU).  Instead, 
whenever there is a failure with the redirect address, the driver should switch 
back to try logging into the portal address.  This is more robust and will make 
recovery faster because the portal address is the place that has the most up-to-
date information about which target ports are available.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. iscsi driver logins to a target that responds with a temporary redirect.
2. iscsi driver logins to the redirect address.
3. disable the redirect port.
  

Actual Results:  The driver will retry logging into the redirect address for about 15 secs before 
going back to try logging into the configured portal address.

Expected Results:  The driver should not retry loggin into the redirect address at all.  It should 
immediately try logging into the configured portal address.

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